Out of the total, $130,000 will go to the city of White Bear Lake to help pay for an extension of city trails from Lion’s Park to South Shore Boulevard. That work should be completed in 2018.

The rest of the money will pay for engineering in several areas: South Shore Boulevard in White Bear Lake and White Bear Township, Birchwood Road and Hall Avenue between Mahtomedi and Birchwood, and Mahtomedi and Dellwood avenues on the northeast side of the lake.

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